Discovery Box1 Kings 2:39 
Context2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”
1 Kings 11:9
Context11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance 1 away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions 2
1 Kings 11:23
Context11:23 God also brought against Solomon 3 another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 4 and was buried in the city of his father David. 5 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 6
1 Kings 14:26
Context14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14:31
Context14:31 Rehoboam passed away 7 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah 8 replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:24
Context15:24 Asa passed away 9 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
1 Kings 22:50
Context22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 10 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 11 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “bent his heart.”
2 sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.
3 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
5 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
6 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
7 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
8 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
9 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
10 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
11 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”
